See, may ye not refuse him who is speaking, for if those did not escape who refused him who upon earth was divinely speaking -- much less we who do turn away from him who speaketh from heaven,

The more

'Only, take heed to thyself, and watch thy soul exceedingly, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they turn aside from thy heart, all days of thy life; and thou hast made them known to thy sons, and to thy sons' sons.

and saith unto them, 'Set your heart to all the words which I am testifying against you to-day, that ye command your sons to observe to do all the words of this law,

and ye have been very watchful for yourselves to love Jehovah your God.

then thou dost prosper, if thou dost observe to do the statutes and the judgments that Jehovah charged Moses with concerning Israel; be strong and courageous; do not fear, nor be cast down.

Beth. With what doth a young man purify his path? To observe -- according to Thy word.

My son, if thou dost accept my sayings, And my commands dost lay up with thee,

My son! let them not turn from thine eyes, Keep thou wisdom and thoughtfulness,

Hear, ye sons, the instruction of a father, And give attention to know understanding.

My son! keep my sayings, And my commands lay up with thee.

And that in the good ground: These are they, who in an upright and good heart, having heard the word, do retain it, and bear fruit in continuance.

'Lay ye to your ears these words, for the Son of Man is about to be delivered up to the hands of men.'

We should

and ye have forgotten the exhortation that doth speak fully with you as with sons, 'My son, be not despising chastening of the Lord, nor be faint, being reproved by Him,

do ye not yet understand, nor remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many hand-baskets ye took up?

Having eyes, do ye not see? and having ears, do ye not hear? and do ye not remember?

Wherefore, I will not be careless always to remind you concerning these things, though, having known them, and having been established in the present truth,

This, now, beloved, a second letter to you I write, in both which I stir up your pure mind in reminding you,

Let them slip

For, lo, I am raising up the Chaldeans, The bitter and hasty nation, That is going to the broad places of earth, To occupy tabernacles not its own.

Thou hast been filled -- shame without honour, Drink thou also, and be uncircumcised, Turn round unto thee doth the cup of the right hand of Jehovah, And shameful spewing is on thine honour.

General references

And Moses saith, 'This is the thing which Jehovah hath commanded: Fill the omer with it, for a charge for your generations, so that they see the bread which I have caused you to eat in the wilderness, in My bringing you out from the land of Egypt.'

and hast bound them for a sign upon thy hand, and they have been for frontlets between thine eyes,

'Seven weeks thou dost number to thee; from the beginning of the sickle among the standing corn thou dost begin to number seven weeks,

and saith unto them, 'Set your heart to all the words which I am testifying against you to-day, that ye command your sons to observe to do all the words of this law,